Not a movie, but: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles? *ducking*
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Una - May 25, 2016 7:56:46 am PDT #45 of 3455
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
msbelle - May 25, 2016 9:07:48 am PDT #46 of 3455
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Thanks y'all that gives me several for him to choose from.
Beverly - May 25, 2016 9:34:29 am PDT #47 of 3455
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I don't know how much light Come See the Paradise would shed on the issue of WWII-era US internment of Japanese Americans, but it would at least raise the issue.
Also, Empire of the Sun would illustrate the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and the internment of foreign nationals.
I.E., there's more to human history than makes it into the textbooks.
askye - May 25, 2016 9:46:46 am PDT #48 of 3455
Thrive to spite them
Stalag 17 maybe? It's got humor and there's action. So maybe?
DXMachina - May 25, 2016 10:25:21 am PDT #49 of 3455
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
For WWII from a historical perspective, I'd go with The Longest Day over Private Ryan. It gives a fairly even handed treatment for all of the combantants, not just USA. Tora, Tora, Tora is similar for Pearl Harbor.
Jesse - May 25, 2016 10:34:41 am PDT #50 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Why not just go with Pearl Harbor ????
DXMachina - May 25, 2016 10:47:20 am PDT #51 of 3455
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
She wanted world history, not fantasy.
SailAweigh - May 25, 2016 11:09:44 am PDT #52 of 3455
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Also a bit grim, but it shows the aftermath of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there's a Japanese film (subtitled in English) called August Rain. If it helps, it has Richard Gere in it.
Beverly - May 25, 2016 11:52:50 am PDT #53 of 3455
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Would he be too young, or too bored by, Band of Brothers? It covers a lot of WW2 european locations and battle conditions, for all that it's primarily a character study of the men of Easy Company.
Likewise, From the Earth to the Moon (1998--I have no input on more recent versions) is more recent history, but if you're doing The Right Stuff, the miniseries hits a lot of that time period, too.
EpicTangent - May 25, 2016 11:57:20 am PDT #54 of 3455
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Kind of a very specific WWII topic, but I really enjoyed The Monuments Men.